PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department of Energy and Climate Change: Public Expenditure (17 November 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her Department's expected underspend is against departmental expenditure limits in the current fiscal year; and what her Department's latest forecast of total AME spend is for this year compared to forecasts at the time of the (a) Summer Budget 2015 and (b) March Budget 2015.

Asked by:
Lisa Nandy (Labour)

The Department does not publish full-year forecast for departmental expenditure limits (DEL) spending. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast underspends in DEL as part of their Economic and Fiscal Outlook which is due to be published on 25th November alongside the Autumn Statement. Outturn data will be published in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts planned for publication by the end of June, before Summer recess.

The forecast of total Annually Managed Expenditure spend for 2015-16 as at March Budget 2015 and Summer Budget 2015 is shown in DECC's Main Estimate; forecasts are currently being updated for the Supplementary Estimate which is due to be published in February:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/441360/PU_1815_Main_Estimates_book_WEB.pdf.

Answered by:
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative)
24 November 2015